art meets balearic hospitality at gathering ibiza and MIRA

GATHERING ibiza and mira reopen for 2025 season

For the 2025 season, London-based gallery GATHERING returns to its Ibiza outpost, continuing to explore how contemporary art, hospitality, and nightlife can coexist in a setting shaped by Mediterranean rhythms and countercultural histories. Located in the village of Sant Miquel de Balansat, the site brings together the gallery itself and MIRA, a courtyard restaurant that extends GATHERING’s ethos into food, conversation, and sound. The project aims to position itself as a long-term site for cultural exchange, shaped by the social texture of the island and international networks of the gallery. The venue enters its second full season with new programming, installations, and an expanded nighttime offering.

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Sunset Strip exhibition Unpacks Island Myths and Tourist Dreams

GATHERING Ibiza gallery occupies a light-filled structure with mezzanine levels and generous ceiling height, designed to encourage slow movement and informal viewing. Its summer exhibition, Sunset Strip, on view until September 1st, is produced in collaboration with Berlin gallery SOCIÉTÉ and brings together works by 17 artists including Petra Cortright, Tai Shani, Wynnie Mynerva, Bunny Rogers, and Marianna Simnett. The show draws on motifs tied to island life – pool tiles, palm leaves, pastel tones, and sun-soaked surfaces – while also exploring the themes of tourism, solitude, and the construction of place. Referencing David Hockney’s West Coast imagery and the aesthetics of leisure, the exhibition asks how Ibiza might serve as a mutable context for contemporary practices, rather than a fixed idea of escape.

Next door, MIRA is conceived as part of GATHERING’s expansion, functioning as a social space where food, music, and art intersect without hierarchy. Artist Tai Shani, who participates in the Sunset Strip exhibition, collaborated on the design, shaping the interiors into a theatrical setting. Blown-glass lanterns shaped like abstracted breasts hang above a pink-hued bar, while outside, mirrored spray paintings by Stefan Brüggemann reflect the surrounding garden and visitors back at themselves. 

London-based gallery GATHERING returns to its Ibiza outpost

Aperitivos, Vinyl Sets, and Late-Night Lounges

On Sundays, the summer program at MIRA features Aperitivo Analogico, vinyl-only DJ sets, while Mondays shift toward a more introspective listening bar format. Throughout the week, artist talks, pop-up dinners, and chef residencies bring together contributors from Ibiza, Spain, Latin America, and elsewhere. Occasional fashion pop-ups also appear throughout the season, treating the venue as a place to test ideas through presence and participation.

New this year is a late-night concept that transforms MIRA after hours into a dimly lit lounge space shaped by 1970s aesthetics. This shift speaks to the aspiration of the venue to extend its hours and open up to different temporal modes for cultural activity. 

GATHERING’s Ibiza chapter continues this trajectory but adjusts the format, suggesting a model for cultural production that embraces hybridity and treats hospitality as part of the infrastructure for contemporary art.

the site brings together the gallery itself and MIRA

the courtyard restaurant extends GATHERING’s ethos into food, conversation, and sound